Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding: Haters around the world, unite

By Elizabeth FlockBy Elizabeth FlockApril 25, 2011

A giant scale Lego replica of the royal ceremony? Seriously? (AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

Washington Post style writer Monica Hesse has a hilarious piece out today for all the London royal wedding “haters,” in which she writes: “At first, wedding news was even a nice break from Libya or Egypt. Then the wedding ate the world.”

It ate the world. Not just London. And thus the haters extend far beyond the cities a person can drive to from Westminster Abbey.

Manufacturers from around the globe aren’t just making sweet commemorative trinkets that feature a smiling Will and Kate or life size lego replicas of the ceremony. They’re also producing royal wedding vomit bags and vituperative chinaware that says: “It should have been me” or “Thanks for the free day off.”

The 20 percent of the crowd that’s American attending the wedding is being described as having “a few screws charmingly loose.” It didn’t help that a Mexican woman went on a hunger fast to get a ticket to the wedding.

New Yorker’s cover this week, which is a cartoon of Kate and Will desperately trying to hide, reminds us that our laser focus on the happy couple means they don’t stand a chance of relaxing or doing anything else normal couples do on their wedding night. A little wedding hate, the cover seems to say, might actually do the couple good.